Daniel 5:17-30 דניאל ה׳:י״ז-ל׳

Then Daniel answered and said before the king: Let thy gifts be to thyself, and give thy rewards to another. Yet I will read the writing to the king, and make known to him the interpretation.

O thou king, the most high G-d gave Nevuchadnezzar thy father a kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and majesty.

And because of the majesty that He gave him, all peoples, nations, and tongues trembled and feared before him. Whom he would, he slew; and whom he would, he kept alive; and whom he would, he set up; and whom he would, he put down.

But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit hardened to do evil, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and his glory was taken from him.

And he was driven from the sons of men. And his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses. He was fed with grass like oxen, and his body was steeped in the dew of heaven; until he came to know that the most high G-d rules in the kingdom of men, and that He appoints over it whomever He pleases.

And thou, his son, O Belshazzar, has not humbled thy heart, though thou knewest all this;

but thou hast lifted up thyself against the L-rd of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of His house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy queen, and thy concubines have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see, hear, or know. And the G-d in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, thou hast not glorified.

Then was the palm of the hand sent from Him, and this writing was written.

And this is the writing that was written: Mene Mene Tekel Ufarsin.

This is the interpretation of the thing: Mene — G-d has numbered [the years of] thy kingdom and [found them] consummated.

Tekel — thou art weighed in the balances and art found wanting.

Peras — thy kingdom is divided and given to Madai and Paras.

Then commanded Belshazzar, and they clothed Daniel in scarlet, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made a proclamation concerning him that he should rule a third of the kingdom.

In that night, Belshazzar the king of the Kasdians was slain.